Gunarm Dyne, who prefers to go by Dyne, is a lifelong gamer and hobbyist Let's Player whose primary focus is on "Classic Games that have been Remade or Re-Imagined," but will also record for old favorites. He's still fairly unknown and only has a handful of subscribers, but doesn't mind as he does it all for fun- though he did start off doing it for therapy and speaking practice when in a deep depression over being out of full-time work for over a year. Most recording sessions involve him streaming live on twitch.tv and uploading the high-definition/edited versions of the video to Youtube but technical limitations or difficulties will lead to some videos being recorded entirely offline.

In June of 2016 he introduced a project of mini-races called the Classic Gaming Grand Prix that quickly moved to its own channel.

His Videos provide examples of:

Played Straight with Lufia II (even going back to record extra footage to showcase treasure chests and features he missed and never knew about despite playing through the game several times before), Dragon View,Soul Blazer, and Another Metroid 2 Remake.

Averted with Super Metroid and Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land (though the latter was a 100% run of the normal game, without doing all of the unlockable modes).

Played straight with a marathon stream of Super Metroid recorded later.

Thankfully averted for Mystic Quest Remastered 2.x, though it seemed likely when the Dark Design Studios website disappeared and contact with the developers was lost for a while, fearing that the game had disappeared with them.

Mega Man X with Touhou Music was planned to cover the whole game but ended after the 8 mavericks as Sigma stages would require more songs and a lot more precision timing to let them play out in-game.

Return of Touhou Mother ends at the start of Chapter 6 mainly because the full game hadn't been finished yet as of reaching that point in the LP. Dyne had not realized that the game itself was only a beta at the time. While the game has since been finished, the LP has not.

Arc Rise Fantasia was due to start for over a year, but was recently officially cancelled due to lack of time.

The outro to each project contain a "Thanks for watching!" message along with the announcement for the next project. Initially, the music chosen for that segment was a simple, upbeat/victorious theme, but recently he's decided to use a theme (straight or remixed) from the next game during that outro. Not so with Touhou Mother as, the ambiance of the theme of the Eight Melodies played over the The End screen was so somber, he didn't want to ruin the mood and just let it repeat a couple more times during the outro.

Parts 13 and 15 of Breath of Fire II have very little joking, riffs or sarcasm during the high-emotion moments while Part 16 gives a fake out project ending message.

Aside Glance: The vocal equivalent is often employed when voicing Kefka and he makes a side comment.

Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: The battle against Shinki on Touhou Mother starts off like this with attacking all-out, until the boss's first attack hits a character for mortal damage.

Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Will sometimes interrupt himself in the middle of an explanation/statement in order to answer a question in the livestream chat or when something unexpected happens in the game, often forgetting to get back to what he was talking about before.

Badass Boast: "We're going to do it right this time!" started off as a joke in his Super MetroidSpeed Run but became this at the end.

Berserk Button: People who blame anime and violent video games for society's ills or, in a more general sense, people who don't like something and try to impose that belief on everyone by trying to have that something banned entirely.

After losing half his party to instant death attacks in a Mystic Quest Remastered 2.x video that gave him a lot of trouble.

Not caught in a recording, but it did happen after realizing he had to re-record the Breath of Fire II finale after not realizing his recording software's input wasn't properly mapped to his mic until the very end of the video.

Has a good one when losing to Solid Arm at the end of Part 11 of Illusion of Gaia.

Big "WHAT?!": In Breath of Fire II when Aspara demonstrates he could have gotten out of the cage at any time.

Internally within Breath of Fire II regards to Ryu's "stick" in the rematch against Barbaroi.

Having just gone to the dentist before recording he reiterates the quotation of the "The tank is clean?!" from Finding Nemo joke intro from Part 3 of Mystic Quest Remastered v1.7a with "My teeth are clean?!" in Part 9 of Return of Touhou Mother. Especially appropriate in that the movie scene takes place in a dentist's office.

The moments of "We're going to do it right this time!" in his 100% Completion run of Super Metroid are references/corrections to moments from either his Let's Play or race videos.

Pointing out that Will never actually took Vitamin C after contracting scurvy in Illusion of Gaia.

Admitted that entering the swamp area in Dragon Viewstill scares him, especially when Sequence Breaking!

The attitude displayed when fighting twoOzmas in the first Mystic Quest remake.

Broken Aesop: The very idea that the cause of getting fat is due to cellulite demons invading the body and magic can be used to maintain a healthy weight without developing personal discipline and healthy eating habits in Breath Of Fire II.

"_____, you're fired!" when a particular party member delivers a poor performance in battle.

"Get out of my way!" when dealing with obstacles that he's not in the mood to put up with.

"When life is giving you a bad day, never be afraid to eat your pudding with a fork," is turning into his standard outro and that comes from a twitter post where he stated it was a bad day at work with systems being down, key people being gone and he had to eat his pudding with a fork since the break room was out of plastic spoons.

Character Development: Is willing to forgive a game for the story not being well-carried by the plot so long as the characters manage to do so, citing Final Fantasy XIII as a recent example based on personal experience.

Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: In Breath of Fire II he gives Tapeta and the citizens of Fort Nageur cheesy French accents but only really plays into the stereotype of the trope when one guard is unceremoniously killed by a fly. A later video had a viewer of the stream ask him to say something super racist so he took a jab at the in-game race of frogs and later theorized that someone would interpret that as a personal attack against the French.

Has a very hard time keeping a straight face and not laughing during the Bait-and-Switch above, but manages to hold off long enough to complete the intro.

Even before this, he didn't even try to hold back when achieving Unlimited Drill Works on Katawa Crash.

Also loses it when trying to remain calm during the character switch portion of Touhou Mother.

Has stated on Twitter that he's been practicing the character voices he has planned for Breath of Fire II and still has trouble not laughing while doing them. He did have a hard time getting through them the first time on camera but didn't have much trouble at all in the succeeding videos.

Crazy-Prepared: Raiza51 set the rule of the Neptunia Victory race was that the party couldn't be any higher than level 65. Dyne used his preparation run to obtain all of the items necessary for every required Fetch Quest in the game well ahead of time to use in New Game+. It's the primary reason he ended up winning despite having to view extra cutscenes for the DLC characters and losing 10 minutes in Chapter 5.

Playing off the keyboard he kept mixing up Breath of Fire II's controls with Mystic Quest Remastered's for a little while.

A memory-related version wherein he'll slip and use the names from the original translation instead of the Fan Translation. Ditto with Final Fantasy VI: The Eternal Crystals and its use of a few characters' original Japanese names.

It is literally impossible to get hit by any of the enemies in the correct route through "Be a Burglar" while inside the castle because, technically, they don't even know Mario's there.

Lakitu appears near the end of his "The Curse of King Midas" level. Even if the player hijacks the cloud, invisible blocks prevent skipping the final leg. There are also several brick blocks that are secretly coin blocks to prevent an unwinnable situation by accidentally breaking one that needs to be used as a platform.

Early Installment Weirdness: Recording the first few games on an unstable wireless connection was not a very good idea. Even after switching to streaming on a wired connection he feels like he doesn't find his full niche until Breath of Fire II.

Epic Fail: As he says, it comes with the territory as no one is immune from the Let's Play Curse.

Had an easier time defeating the Dark King on Mystic Questthe hard way!

Getting a game over within one minute in Part 3 of Mega Man 3 (though the final death was intentional to reset his life counter).

Not to mention recording the entire original version of the second episode with the camera on his title card instead of the game footage.

Lost to Cirno(!)twice in Touhou Mother simply by getting the Item and Guard commands mixed up.

Took a Critical HitOne-Hit Kill in the first regular battle in Mystic Quest Remastered v2.x, leaving him speechless for several seconds.

He rewrote the lyrics for the Oompa Loompa song from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory for the battle against the Uparupa in Breath of Fire II only he sang the song when fighting one of the fake Uparupas instead of the real.

Not realizing the Emergency Exit is a one-way warp in the Highland dungeon and having to re-do the entire thing up to that point.

Recording the entire Breath of Fire II finale before realizing that his mic was off.

When explaining Celes's Runic ability in Final Fantasy VI it immediately begins with her absorbing the magic item Locke attempted to use on the boss.

Part 9 nearly had to be re-done as the Hypercam recording captured the wrong portion of his screen and Audacity wasn't configured for the right mic to pick up the commentary. Thankfully the back-up recording off of XSplit Broadcaster came out fine.

Part 14 showcases an in-game example where Mash hits an enemy and his weapon summons an esper. In the first battle this happened, the summoned esper was Titan. The enemy: The Storm Dragon.note Using any earth-based attack on a flying enemy is a great way to waste a turn.

Explains during the Neptunia mk2 race how, in his first run of the game, he did quests as they became available and almost got locked out on being able to recruit Noire due to how the quests messed up Lastation's shares. He was able to repair the damage by fighting a DLC colosseum battle that required grinding to Level 80 in order to win.

In Part 2 of Soul Blazer he declared the boss of World 2 much easier than the boss of World 1, but ended up dying twice against it, having forgotten to get both the Ice Armor and Shield Bracelet, which are what make said boss much easier.

Funny Background Event: After recruiting the painter, the houses in Township in Breath of Fire II are changed to a different color with each video.

Game-Breaker: In-universe points them out in the games he plays: Storm Tornado in Mega Man X and PK Throw in Return of Touhou Mother especially.

Glorious Mother Russia: His joke voice for Nisa in the Neptunia mk2 race comes from giving her the same voice when doing a guest commentary on one of Raiza's Let's Play videos of the same game.

Graceful Loser: Played straight when he refuses to accept restarting a part of the Neptunia Victory race courtesy of making a big mistake that cost 10 minutes and forced him to replay the first half of Chapter 5. Though he still won the race in the end.

Heroic B.S.O.D.: He fell into a deep depression that killed his motivation and lasted for several months after his dog died. The CGGP was created to help with getting back into the groove.

Has been told he has potential to have a great singing voice but couldn't stay on key if his life depended on it, especially when doing acappela, but that doesn't stop him from belting out random tunes for the sake of Rule of Funny.

Though he does spare everyone when Celes is doing a crash course on how to sing opera in Final Fantasy VI.

I Am Very British: The man who gives out the Mega Grenades in Mystic Quest was portrayed as very jittery and unhinged in the original game and first remake, in the second remake he's calmed down significantly and even has a very refined British accent.

Announced on Twitter that he wants to do a Let's Play of Mega Man Rock Force just for the sake of making every lame joke possible with the name "Justice Man." He finally got to use them in the race with the SuperLPHeroes.

In the Neptunia mk2 race, Compa defeats Pirachu by, "Sticking it to him!"note Her weapon is a giant syringe.

"The name Lowee is out of date. Shouldn't it be Lowee U by now?"

It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY": Immediately gets called out by a chat viewer on how he pronounces various names in Final Fantasy VI, starting with Narshe.

Jump Scare: Even though his commentary for Part 4 of the Neptunia mk2 race was lost, you can still hear him shout, "What am I fighting for?!" at about 6:25 in that video and it gives the other racers this reaction.

Karmic Death: Two instances happen to Sinisterkun in the Mega Man 4 race.

Lampshade Hanging: "The following opera has been subtitled for the hearing-impaired, although what's on the screen won't exactly match up with what's being sung," when overlaying a live concert version of the opera from Final Fantasy VI while the original English translation of the lyrics are what appear on screen.

"We're going to do it right this time!" is becoming the Catch-Phrase associated with this, especially for succeeding on something after failing on it once or twice (Disclaimer: but no guarantee that it won't fail again).

Declared, "Round two, freak!" upon the rematch against the Bonus Boss of Illusion of Gaia and wins very handily.

Level Grinding: Done offscreen (most of the time) and will often recommend a minimum level for various areas in RPGs that require it.

Literal-Minded: Used as a joke for the dialogue of a girl who "tweets" her dialogue in Dragon View as he chirps like a bird for her (but missing the joke of limiting her dialogue to 140 characters or less).

The Load: Is convinced that Erik becomes one upon reaching the second half of Illusion of Gaia.

Loads and Loads of Characters: He doesn't know which is harder: Trying to find a different voice for each major character encountered or keeping the voices consistent even within the same video, let alone with a week in between each one.

Logo Joke: Part 9 of Return of Touhou Mother is "Part ⑨" courtesy of fighting Cirno in it.

Scrapped the video of the Kickle Cubicle Special Game done blind, especially since the latter levels required looking up a guide while recording live!

Twitch lost the video file that comprised the original Part 5 of his first Let's Listen before he got it uploaded to Youtube (which pissed him off to no end due to that part containing a heartfelt tribute to his late brother).

Has also re-recorded other, older videos due to his wireless connection dropping in the middle of recording.

Loves to try and give each character in most games a different voice. Unfortunately it is also a large strain on his vocal chords during major RPG projects and the primary cause of one of his major hiatuses.

Lufia II also toyed with regional accents for a lot of generic characters.

Taken to a literal extreme in Dragon View when Argos is described as "having the voice of a thousand demons," Dyne switches up voices for every syllable whenever he speaks!

Averted (mostly) for Touhou Mother as he began recording it after a two-week bout of laryngitis and doesn't have a very good range of voices for women (when 90% of the characters in the game are female). Return of Touhou Mother is an attempt at expanding on that.

He's admitted that he's always cried easily, but even that got turned Up to Eleven after a nervous breakdown in his early 20s, so expect this to happen during poignant moments.

Breaks down during the Lufia II ending, and has stated that he expects the same thing to happen with Touhou Mother.

It did. If you listen closely, he's only mostly able to hold them back during Mima's farewell message when discovering her sleeping form in Touhou Mother. Not to mention the final battle.

In general, if he turns very quiet and soft-spoken, they won't be too far behind if the scene lasts long enough.

He's even admitted that he can't even sing several of his favorite songs because they make him break down and cry. Evident with the lyrics for the original Eight Melodies lyrics when they appear in Touhou Mother's Magicant.

Audibly chokes up when talking about his late brother and his parallel between River from To the Moon when he introduces a song from it during his first Audiosurf session.

Said this about Part 4 of Final Fantasy VI: The Eternal Crystals, "For the Edgar/Mash flashback, I was acting. For the Locke/Rachel one, I wasn't."

Barely manages to hold his composure when interacting with the residents of the Native Village and their plight in part 9 of Illusion of Gaia.

Has trouble keeping it together multiple times for various songs during the Project Diva F 2nd list.

Masochism Tango: Has plans to LP his most-hated SNES game of all time, Bubsy: Claws Encounter Of The Furred Kind and dub it a "Let's Rage" (but not any time soon).

Mood Whiplash: Most often done for Rule of Funny in that he can switch moods at the drop of a hat, most often between spazzing out when something goes wrong and then returning to his regular self like nothing happened after the crisis has passed.

Motor Mouth: Done unintentionally more often than not as he constantly reminds himself to slow down when speaking or reading dialogue, especially since one of the reasons he makes videos is to help overcome his stuttering.

Turns Gigi Kupp into one in Breath of Fire II and Shou Toramaru after getting a coffee buzz in Return of Touhou Mother.

MST3K Mantra: In-universe this is his attitude towards several titles that he feels are underrated because it requires looking beyond the surface elements people complain about but not looking at the big picture. The Ar tonelico trilogy and Time and Eternity are good examples of ones he will adamantly defend as being good games when looking beyond the innuendo and negative hype they're known for.

Musical Spoiler: Has a background song ready for the escape sequence at the end of Super Metroid, and accidentally plays the song prepared for the outro/next game announcement.

Not a Morning Person: Inverted. While he prefers to record in the early afternoon, he's most often up before sunrise and begins to slow down around 4:00 pm. This is why he hardly ever records on weekdays since starting his new job.

A Breath of Fire II video illustrated this as he recorded it late at night (for him anyway) and ended up being a lot more sarcastic than usual. It didn't help that he was doing one of his least favorite stretches of the game. Appropriately enough, the video title is, "Late-Night Recording Sarcasm."

Not So Above It All: Has said he doesn't like using toilet humor or jokes that are too adult-themed but does so anyway when the opportunities are too good to pass up.

Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In-universe when commenting that the Highlight Reels of Mario Kart 8 tend to leave out the truly most awesome moments.

Oh, Crap!: The most appropriate reaction when his Rousing Speech during the start of the battle against the Dark King in Mystic Quest Remastered 2.x begins with the Dark King casting Ultima.

Spoken verbally when running into three of the worst type of enemy in an area in Return of Touhou Mother.

Making a big mistake in the Neptunia Victory race that costs him over 10 minutes.

Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Inverted as part of Edgar dropping his disguise as Gerad during Final Fantasy VI in that he initially forgets to drop the accent once the ruse is over and switches mid-line.

Otaku: Has stated that his video game collection is only rivaled by his anime and figure collections. He also lovingly refers to his favorite female characters in a game/series as his waifus but will also be the first to admit they aren't real.

Over Nine Thousand: Inverted, though he realizes that "Under 9000!" just doesn't have the same kick.

Padding: In-universe, he hates getting lost and wasting time as it basically amounts to this. When a game requires grinding, he'll do it off screen or have a save state ready where it's already done. He stated that this is why Breath of Fire II is a very hard game to LP as long dungeons with high encounter rates just completely kill the commentary.

Rick Roll: Does this to Sinisterkun for a victory theme in the 1st Grand Prix's run of Super Mario Kart. Doubles as Call-Back to pulling the prank on him offscreen previously when sending a "sneak peek" at the finished Mega Man IV race.

Rule of Funny: Most characters will be given voices in an attempt to match their personality traits while others are given the most inappropriate ones possible for the sake of this trope.

The woman in the Foresta Inn in Mystic Quest Remastered v2.x who keeps getting in the way of the bed and Dyne claiming she wants to sleep with the main character.

Breath of Fire II hints at cameos from different series/franchises and reminds the viewer that Lin does not wear pants in each video. And, midway through, after recruiting the painter for Township, each video that begins there has the town sporting a different color scheme. "Killer ninja robots on flying machines" becomes one whenever Gigi Kupp is present.

Immediately compares the giant homing snowballs in Laynole in Part 4 to the boulder that endlessly chases Al's character in UHF and remembers the key to defeating them is by employing Looney Tunes tactics.

What's the appropriate title for becoming an Inkling and having to swim through an underwater death maze of drybone fish and saw blades? "Grinding Nemo."

"Springfield PD Training Course" is taken straight out of Marge Simpson's police training from "The Simpsons S 6 E 23 The Springfield Connection"; including a "baby" and "blind man" in the firing range, and the classic means of circumventing the wall at the end of the obstacle course.

"The Curse of King Midas" is of course a direct reference to the Greek myth wherein the golden touch is replaced by fiendishly-placed P-switches that will turn all of the blocks into gold coins and cause Mario to fall to his death.

"Ever Play a CAVE Shooter?" is as close to bullet hell as possible within the game due to a limited number of enemies allowed on a map.

The Show Must Go On: Since starting to record with Hypercam/Elgato at the same time as streaming the recording sessions he's able to still record a full video even if the stream fails.

The opposite has held true as two recent parts of Final Fantasy VI have been the stream footage due to mistakes in the main Hypercam setup that he didn't catch before recording.

Shown Their Work: The stardate given at the start of Part 17 of Breath of Fire is, according to the system used in Star Trek Online the stardate for the day and time he began recording that video.

Speech Impediment: He tends to stutter when using his natural speaking voice courtesy of trying to put his thoughts into words. His Kefka persona inherits a lot of this since a ton of his lines are ad-libbed.

Starting with Mischief Makers, these are becoming more regular at the end of each project.

Stock Scream: Does the "Goofy holler" when dying in the intro level of Mega Man X by getting knocked into a pit.

Wanted to give the Wilhem Scream to a soldier of Doma who falls off the castle wall in Final Fantasy VI but couldn't imitate it.

He made a joke video of Laguna falling off the cliff near the end of Disc 1 of Final Fantasy VIII multiple times with a different one dubbed in each time.

Suddenly SHOUTING!: Does this often but a notable example is when he gets tongue-tied on how to describe Aspara's mushroom girl form in Breath of Fire II and breaks out of it by shouting, "English needs a genderless pronoun!"

The creatures whose energy has been sucked dry and crumble with a touch near the end of Super Metroid have been called, "As fragile as Bubsy."

In Breath of Fire II when Highland's Magic Gate is throwing out errors as it's destroyed, he voices it asking, "Would you like to submit an error report?"

Also takes a snipe at The Scrappy season of The Biggest Loser with the utter ridiculousness of the kind of excuse Melodia's queen would give on how she gained, lost and re-gained all of her weight.note Season 13 was titled "No Excuses!" and had one of the most whiny, childish, excuse-giving, unpopular group of contestants ever to appear on the series and is what drove him to stop watching the series altogether. He basically feels the queen would have fit right in with them.

Tempting Fate: "So long as this monster doesn't use this one attack-" Game Over.

Happens again in Part 11 of Final Fantasy VI where he mentions not practicing one portion of the Floating Continent dungeon after saying the events to get there are much harder. The boss fights preceding the dungeon are a Curb-Stomp Battle in his favor while the one he didn't practice resulted in the project's first game over.

That Came Out Wrong: Did not mean to imply that Koishi was actually a shemale in Return of Touhou Mother.

That One Level: In-universe: "I hate the swamp! I hate the swamp! I hate the swamp!" (Applicable for Dragon View and Touhou Mother.)

Does not hide his disdain for the second act of Breath of Fire II, which is basically an extended Fetch Quest that contributes virtually nothing to the plot and has very little Character Development.

Mt. Kress in Illusion of Gaia is one in his opinion. Not because of the difficulty but because it is an area that contributes nothing to the overall plot and just acts as a vehicle for Neil to leave the party.

And once again after quoting "I'm a Little Teapot," during Illusion of Gaia.

This Is Unforgivable!: Considers the worst thing anyone could do in Return of Touhou Mother is loot the treasure of an area before he does.

Title Drop: Averted and inverted during Part 18 of The Eternal Crystals wherein he mentioned "Long Battles Are Long" was the title of the video during recording, but then decided to change it to "It's the Raspture!" a few minutes later courtesy of needing the Rasp spell to defeat Atomos.

Took a Level in Badass: In-universe he did this with Sabin/Mash's voice in Final Fantasy VI whereas he starts off with a meek and calm voice before his monk training. Upon meeting the party when he joins up, he's given the voice of Hulk Hogan!

Every version of "Don't Get Greedy" ensures the player only gets a single extra life from bouncing on the koopa troopas.

"Be a Burglar" appears straightforward, until entering the Death Trap that is Bowser's castle via the front door.note The key is to trigger hidden blocks, climb onto the roof, and enter the well-concealed pipe behind the chimney.

"Have a Freebie" is immediately suspect given it appears to be a mostly-empty level, but the goal is surrounded by invisible blocks.

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